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JUBILEE THEATRE CONTINUES SEASON WITH THE POWERFUL DRAMA “FROM THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA”

Jubilee Theatre continues their twenty-ninth season with the powerful and moving drama by Dr. Endesha Ida Mae Holland, From the Mississippi Delta.  Holland, a noted scholar and dramatist, wrote a memoir of the same name in 1997.  This powerful story chronicles her journey from poverty and prostitution in the Jim Crow South to civil rights activism, a Ph.D. and an academic career. 

THE 2009 BAKE AUCTION IS DRAWING NEAR!

Jubilee’s 2009 Bake Auction will be on December 13th following the 3 p.m. performance of Home for the Holidays!

JUBILEE THEATRE GETS IN THE HOLIDAY SPIRIT WITH AN ORIGINAL MUSICAL: HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS

Jubilee Theatre continues the 2009-2010 season with an original holiday musical written and directed by Ed Smith.  Home for the Holidays will officially open December 4 and continue through December 27.  Come celebrate the holiday season with Jubilee Theatre in the heart of Sundance Square’s festive entertainment district.  Just one block from the Sundance Square Christmas tree! 

Jubilee Theatre Opens the 2009-2010 Season with THE DANCE ON WIDOW’S ROW

Jubilee Theatre opens the 2009-2010 season with a regional premiere of the comedy by Samm-Art Williams, The Dance on Widow’s Row.

JUBILEE THEATRE ANNOUNCES 2009-2010 SEASON LINEUP!

Jubilee Theatre Artistic Director Ed Smith announces the theatre’s 2009-2010 season, a lineup that opens with the sole North American production this year of The Dance on Widow’s Row by Samm-Art Williams.  The season continues with Home for the Holidays, a new holiday musical by Ed Smith, Dr. Endesha Ida Mae Holland’s From the Mississippi Delta originally directed by Ed Smith in 1988, One Mo’ Time - An Evening at the Lyric Theatre in 1926 by Vernel Bagneriss, Gem of the Ocean by August Wilson, and Blues in the Night a review style musical conceived and originally directed by Sheldon Epps.

JUBILEE THEATRE CLOSES OUT 08-09 SEASON WITH SAM SHADE: A DETECTIVE MUSICAL

Jubilee Theatre ends its 2008-2009 Season, the company’s 28th, with Sam Shade: A Detective Musical, an original musical with music and lyrics by Joe Rogers.  Directed by Tyrone King, this farce is based on the classic novels The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells and The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett. 

JUBILEE THEATRE PRESENTS THE GOSPEL QUEEN CONCEIVED AND DIRECTED BY ED SMITH

Jubilee Theatre continues its celebration of the African-American experience with its 2008-2009 season and a new musical conceived by Jubilee Artistic Director, Ed Smith. The Gospel Queen featuring Sheran Goodspeed Keyton focuses on the life of one of gospel music’s greatest sensations, Mahalia Jackson. 

JUBILEE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR ED SMITH TO BE HONORED BY NATIONAL BLACK THEATRE FESTIVAL

This year, the prestigious National Black Theatre Festival® will honor Jubilee Theatre Artistic Director Ed Smith with the festival’s first annual Lloyd Richards’ Director’s Award. 

JUBILEE THEATRE PRESENTS AUGUST WILSON’S THE PIANO LESSON

Jubilee Theatre continues its celebration of African-American culture with its 2008-2009 season and August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson. An American icon, August Wilson depicted the human condition like no other playwright of his time.  The Piano Lesson is the fourth in a cycle of ten plays chronicling the African-American experience throughout the 20th century.

JUBILEE THEATRE PRESENTS TONI MORRISON’S THE BLUEST EYE

Adapted for the stage by Lydia R. Diamond, Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye is a story about the tragic life of a young black girl in 1940s Ohio.